This report argues that standard video codecs like libvpx encode heteronormative, capitalist, and ableist assumptions: they prioritize efficiency, determinism, reproducibility, and a single "correct" decoding path. A "queer" approach would deliberately subvert these priorities, turning compression artifacts, data loss, non-deterministic decoding, and temporal glitches into expressive, political, and aesthetic tools. The report outlines theoretical foundations, technical audit points, speculative implementations, and case studies for a queer libvpx .
An artist streams a webcam feed using libvpx-queer with --queer-keyframe=never and --queer-motion=random . Over 10 minutes, the image gradually loses coherence: faces smear into color fields, motion vectors jump between unrelated moments, and block boundaries become a grid. The audience watches the failure of representation, not the representation itself. queer libvpx
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